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"Mazzo di Fiori" Kickstarter project by Joshua Harker to support R&D of a revolutionary new 3d printing technology.
Either many believe it or not, the use of AIs can get out of hand. I've been seeing lately how much AIs have been introduced not only in our lives but also even in religion. This kind of stuff shows how far it can get. I also saw this video about AIs being used as robots in religion and it really is scary.
I pray that God help us discern from good and evil before it's too late. Because one thing is us humans, made by him with a soul and a heart, humans that can be inspired by the Holy Spirit and do good to the world and another thing is a heartless machine that does nothing but what it is programmed to. Let us pray for a better use of the technology created.
I need an absolutely CHONKY computer, lifting it will be the only cardio I get, you feel me? Gimme all my ports and connectors back, and I need to be able to spill my drink all over that keyboard and NOTHING will happen to it. I wants all the RAM and all the storage, you don't understand - or do you?
You know what, fuck it, I don't *want* some frivolous, artisanal, lighter-than-air computer with no customizability, no upgradeability, no reparability, no ports, and a lifetime of *maybe* 3 years if you're lucky. I want a fucking great BEAST of a computer that's designed to last a minimum of 50 years, with ports up the wazoo and optional drives for every kind of media! I want modular components that you can drop in a bog for a year, dry them off, and have them still work fine! I want them to make a noise like "ker-chunk!" when you slide them into place! I want a switch that you pull to turn it on! And I don't want software that constantly forces you to get a pointless, cosmetic "upgrade" every few months either! I want durability! I want longevity! I want satisfying haptics! I want Silicon Valley to go fuck itself!
the big finish website saga
(i don’t support them anymore)
gang my big finish is not loading. i need to download rhys and iantos excellent barbecue before i implode.
please help, the website won’t load on any browser. is this just me :(
edit: OKAY I FOUND THEIR TWITTER AND IT IS A UNIVERSAL THING THAT THEY ARE FIXING.
edit again: OKAY OML IVE BEEN CHECKING LIKE EVERY HOUR AND THEY SAID IT HAS BEEN FIXED BUT IT MIGHT BE A FEW HOURS I DONT KNOW HOW LONG I CAN LAST
final edit: OMG YAY IT WORKD OML TIME TO SPEND ALL OF MH MONEG YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYATAATATAYAYAYTATA
i liéd another edit: i think i broke it :( it won’t work anymore
edited yet again: YESSS OMG IT WORKS NVM YAY IM SK HAPPY
The machine, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff - October 6, 2023
The car, Phoenix, Arizona - March 28, 2024
Part of an on-site challenge for the SkillsUSA 2024 State Competition, in which I won 7th overall for Photography
No one deserves depression and unhappiness. Evgeny Lushpin Fine Art
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Cybernetic Masterpiece
A new tool lets artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that if it’s scraped into an AI training set, it can cause the resulting model to break in chaotic and unpredictable ways.
The tool, called Nightshade, is intended as a way to fight back against AI companies that use artists’ work to train their models without the creator’s permission. Using it to “poison” this training data could damage future iterations of image-generating AI models, such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, by rendering some of their outputs useless—dogs become cats, cars become cows, and so forth. MIT Technology Review got an exclusive preview of the research, which has been submitted for peer review at computer security conference Usenix.
AI companies such as OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Stability AI are facing a slew of lawsuits from artists who claim that their copyrighted material and personal information was scraped without consent or compensation. Ben Zhao, a professor at the University of Chicago, who led the team that created Nightshade, says the hope is that it will help tip the power balance back from AI companies towards artists, by creating a powerful deterrent against disrespecting artists’ copyright and intellectual property. Meta, Google, Stability AI, and OpenAI did not respond to MIT Technology Review’s request for comment on how they might respond.
Zhao’s team also developed Glaze, a tool that allows artists to “mask” their own personal style to prevent it from being scraped by AI companies. It works in a similar way to Nightshade: by changing the pixels of images in subtle ways that are invisible to the human eye but manipulate machine-learning models to interpret the image as something different from what it actually shows.
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I'm a Zillenial and my parents were early adopters of broadband, so I was too young to remember the days when internet wasn't broadband (and my parents wouldn't let infant-me go on the internet anyway).
My family did have one holdout for AOL dial-up though-- a pair of family friends who stuck by it until 2008-ish. I remember finding it annoying and wondering why they didn't just switch over to the internet that doesn't need the phone.
They said it was less expensive, but I don't know if that was actually true.
Do you guys remember when the house first got a broadband connection and suddenly people could use the internet whenever without tying up the phone line. Nothing in life has ever felt as luxurious a life upgrade as that did.
Andromedia (1998) dir. Takashi Miike
So the other night during D&D, I had the sudden thoughts that:
1) Binary files are 1s and 0s
2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches
You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purls…
You can knit Doom.
However, after crunching some more numbers:
The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom being…
3322 square feet
Factoring it out…302 people, each knitting a relatively reasonable 11 square feet, could knit Doom.
